John Attig says it all --
Daniel Starr
ARLIS/NA Liaison to CC:DA
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask]
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
> John Attig
> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 10:06 AM
> To: Description and Access
> Subject: [ALA-CCDA:5171] ALA MidWinter: Committee on Cataloging:
> Description & Access
>
>
>
> Below is the announcement that I sent to AUTOCAT. Please
> feel free to send
> to other discussion lists you think might be interested.
>
> John
>
> >The Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA) will be
> >meeting at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in San Antonio, TX. The major
> >business will be discussion of the the draft of Part I of
> RDA: Resource
> >Description and Access, which was just distributed for comment by the
> >Joint Steering Committee (JSC). A major portion of the
> CC:DA meetings on
> >Saturday afternoon and Monday morning will be devoted to
> discussion of the
> >draft, as will a special meeting at 10:30 AM on Friday, January 20.
> >
> >There will also be an Resource Description and Access (RDA)
> Update Forum
> >on Saturday, January 21, from 4-6 PM in the Convention
> Center Theater.
> >Jennifer Bower, the ALA representative to the JSC, will
> provide an update
> >on progress. She and Barbara Tillett, the Library of Congress
> >representative to the JSC, will respond to questions from
> members of the
> >audience.
> >
> >Resource Description and Access (RDA) is the successor to
> AACR2. It is a
> >progressive set of content rules that will soon have a
> profound effect on
> >cataloging and metadata practices in libraries and other information
> >organizations. RDA is scheduled for publication in print and
> online formats
> >in 2008.
> >
> >For further details about the CC:DA meetings and links to some of the
> >documents, including the agenda for the meetings, see the
> announcement of
> >the meeting on the CC:DA website at
> >http://www.libraries.psu.edu/tas/jca/ccda/index.html.
>
>
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